I love HH1, the average playerbase is way better than myself and that makes the odd kill all the more satisfying, but the lack of PL drives me mad!

Anyone know of a similar quality server that is PL maps only? Most of the ones i have tried, 90% of the team are idiots.

Tbh getting a full time PL server that attracts even half the kind of skill 1 gets is gonna be a tough task, outside of pub play it's often looked down upon.

I agree that there's too much goddamn 5CP on the HH servers, it sucks balls on pub. But likewise, Hemsk, I've not found any half-decent PL-only servers.

Maybe we could influence the HH map votes towards PL a bit more?

I always vote PL, but it rarely wins. Still. im not going to try to change HH1, its great for a lot of people and there have been more than enough discussions about map rotation before so need to rehash it.

I tried a valve PL map only server yesterday night, was dumb, i got a 56-2 kill ratio as a sniper, thats about 100 times better than i do on HH but 100 times more boring =/

There is 1 PL map in every map vote. If enough people, that want to play a PL map, vote for that map, then that map will be played. Having just 1 PL map in each vote means that the PL loving vote isn't split, which means a PL map is more likely to win if there are enough people playing that actually want to play a PL map.

The opinions of 2 people on a forum won't necessary be reflective of everyone on a server at any given time and, therefore, can't be imposed.

HH5 is a totally freeform server. It could be PL 24/7 if desired just by playing on it and using admin. It has a vote system that first offers a vote for the type of map, CP, PL or Jump, and followed by a vote which offers a selection consisting of only the winning type of map.

Oh theres no doubt that the overall opinion of HH1 players is PL sucks and CP5 is super. As mentioned, thats fine, not trying to change anything. This thread wasnt even meant to discuss HH servers at all =)

Sure, I was only responding to Trent's question.

Lethal Zone has a Payload-Only server:

connect 88.198.69.251:27030

The LZ community seem friendly enough, & of a decent standard, but I don't think this is one of their most popular servers:



Tangent!

I enjoy Payload, perhaps not as a primary game type, but there are very few maps that are even remotely fun. Badwater, Goldrush, and most of Upward (it wasn't until I played Highlander on Upward that I realised the final point could be capped with anything other than dumb luck/stacked teams. Still, not great for 12v12) are what I view as the benchmarks. Everything else is so poorly designed (Frontier, Hoodoo, Swiftwater), optimised (Barnblitz, Cashworks, Frontier) or overlong (Thunder Mountain), that I'd rather disconnect & find somewhere else to play.

1 PL map and 3 5CP. But I agree, 2 forum posts can't represent any full server

It's not quite like that. It's always 1 PL and then the other maps could be A/D,5CP,CTF.

Did you get my point that by having only 1 PL map in each vote, then you aren't splitting the PL vote? All the PL votes go to one map.

We have had a PL only server twice before, but it never got the support and was dropped.